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autoguy:
"His boyfriend was getting jealous and didn't like him cheating with rudimentary line drawings."

HAHA :-). Just going back through some old galleries and found that. Funny. :-)

Reminds me of the Winchester house. Dang. I don't think I could have resisted knocking a hole through that to see what was inside! OK, not really, but it would have been REEEEEEEEEally hard to resist, and would have driven me crazynot to see what was back there.

"SIGNS"

LOVE LOVE LLLOOOVVVE THIS!!!! :-)

Does anyone have a recent photo since the collapse? I knew the old girl was sagging in the center. The most recent pic I had looked grotesque and very unstable.

The fact they build a freaking Wal Mart over this ticks me off. Its not like theres a shortage of wal marts, jeez people.

yeah someone drove like a huge truck into the huge fence...so the fence barely exists anymore

Im having a time trying to figure out what the area behind the black brick was used for? Was that another stairwell going down?

ws told by one of the reporters it should be standing for my trip in Oct but it would be greaaaaaat if some more happened during my visit - I like the phosphouresent paint- a giant glowing orb to be seen from outer space -again nix the expletives

Nice captured shot

Beautiful shot, stairs and doors...where are they leading to.....
Nice colours

I recently bought a book about Dixmont that was loaded with photos before the place closed, after it closed, during it's decay right up until the time some family bought it. This mural is included in the book and it's explained that these were people that worked there, and the sixth woman from the left "originally had a bird on her head because one of the residents thought it would look good." This is a quote from the book. Bird on her head or bloody eyes, either way this whole mural is a bit disturbing.

It does look inviting.

This was another interesting set of photos. There seems to be so many different styles in this campus. Every door seemed different, windows varied, wall and ceilings varied from pic to pic. The outside photos seem cohesive but the inside spaces could definitely show the different builders involved.

Very enjoyable tour!

The reasoning behind the raised walkways are not only for the reasoning of the boxed in courtyard that mikeymisery posted, but directly underneath the raised platforms are where the underground tunnels are located that lead from the basement of almost each building. These tunnels were used by staff and patients to travel between the administration buildings and the housing buildings, and I also have heard that the tunnels were also used to transport the deceased out of the campus in an attempt to keep morale high (mainly because staff didn't want patients to see the dead bodies being wheeled through the outdoor public areas)